Sporting Kansas City announced their currently scheduled matches for the 2011 pre-season on Wednesday, featuring friendlies against five MLS clubs and the NPSL’s Arizona Sahuaros and Montreal Impact while the club undergoes pre-season training in Arizona.
Sporting will see their first opposition of the pre-season on Saturday, February 5th against the Columbus Crew. Four days later Kansas City will complete an inter-squad scrimmage before facing the reigning MLS Cup champions Colorado Rapids on Saturday, February 12th.
Prior to returning to Kansas City on Tuesday, February 15th, Sporting will play two mixed-squad matches against the Houston Dynamo and U.S. Under-18 National Team to finish their first of a pair of two-week training stints at the Reach 11 Sports Complex in Phoenix. Kansas City will return to Phoenix on February 21st after five days off in Kansas City..
The team’s second stretch in Arizona will then feature four additional competitive matches. Kansas City will again have a doubleheader on Saturday, February 26th in Casa Grande, Arizona as Sporting and the expansion Portland Timbers will meet as MLS clubs for the first time at 11am, followed by friendly against the NPSL's Montreal Impact at 12:30pm. The team will then take a trip to Tucson, Arizona for the Major League Soccer Desert Cup, where the team will test themselves in back-to-back days on Hi Corbett Field. Sporting’s reserves will play the Arizona Sahuaros of the NPSL on Friday, March 4th and then return to action 24 hours later against the New York Red Bulls on Saturday, March 5th.
See below for Sporting Kansas City’s full 2011 pre-season schedule (subject to change, all times Mountain Standard Time):
<strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Date</span></strong> |
<strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Opponent</span></strong> |
<strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Time</span></strong> |
<strong><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Location</span></strong> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">2/5/10</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Columbus Crew</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">10:00am</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Phoenix, AZ (Reach 11)</span> |
<span>2/9/10</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Intra-Squad</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">10:00am</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Phoenix, AZ (Reach 11)</span> |
<span>2/12/10</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Colorado Rapids</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">10:00am</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Phoenix, AZ (Reach 11)</span> |
<span>2/15/10</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Houston Dynamo</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">10:00am</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Phoenix, AZ (Reach 11)</span> |
<span>2/15/10</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">U.S. Under-18 MNT</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">11:00am</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Phoenix, AZ (Reach 11)</span> |
<span>2/26/10</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Portland Timbers</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">11:00am</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Casa Grande, AZ (Grande Sports World) </span> |
<span>2/26/10</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Montreal Impact</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">12:30pm</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Casa Grande, AZ (Grande Sports World) </span> |
<span>3/4/10</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Arizona Sahuaros</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">7:00pm</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Tucson, AZ (Hi Corbett)</span> |
<span>3/5/10</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">New York Red Bulls</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">7:00pm</span> |
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Tucson, AZ (Hi Corbett)<br></span> |
